The Viper and the File

by Aesop

Versions of The Viper and the File include:

• "Of the Serpent", translated by William Caxton, edited by Joseph Jacobs, in The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 (1484)
• "A Snake and a File", translated by Roger L'Estrange, in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
• "The Viper and the File", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
• "The Serpent and the File", translated by Joseph Jacobs, edited by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by Richard Heighway, in The Fables of Æsop (1894)
• "The Viper and the File", translated by Vernon Stanley Jones, in Æsop's fables: A New Translation (1912)